Bempong, F.K., Ozumba, B.M., Hotor, V., Takyi, B., Nwanjide, C.S., 2019. A review of the geology and the petroleum potential of the Cretaceous Tano Basin of Ghana. Journal of Petroleum &Environmental Biotechnology 10, DOI: 10.35248/2157-7463.19.10.395.

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/a-review-of-the-geology-and-the-petroleum-potential-of-the-cretaceous- tano-basin-of-ghana-44289.html This is a review of the geology and the petroleum potential of the Cretaceous Tano Basin of Ghana, one of the coastal sedimentary basins in Ghana. It is located on the West African Transform Margin. It initially evolved as a pull-apart basin and later became modified by wrench faulting in the Cretaceous period. It has been known to have potentials for hydrocarbons, as indicated by oils seeps observed in the late 19th century. The presence of active source rocks deposited in the Albian to Cenomanian as well as the Turonian charges the Upper Cretaceous reservoirs sealed by widespread marine shales, as well as faulted traps and pinch-outs, has spurred exploration efforts. Thus, as expected, commercial discoveries of oil and gas have been made in the Tano Basin which evidently has become a 'hot cake' in deepwater exploration, even though the ultradeep water could show even more exciting hydrocarbon plays.

Benucci, G.M.N., Burnard, D., Shepherd, L.D., Bonito, G., Munkacsi, A.B., 2020. Evidence for co-evolutionary history of early diverging Lycopodiaceae plants with fungi. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 2944. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019. 02944.

https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02944 Lycopods are tracheophytes in the Kingdom Plantae and represent one of the oldest lineages of living vascular plants. Symbiotic interactions between these plants with fungi and bacteria, including fine root endophytes in Endogonales, have been hypothesized to have helped early diverging plant lineages colonize land. However, attempts to study the lycopod rhizobiome in its natural environment are still limited. In this study, we used Illumina amplicon sequencing to characterize fungal and bacterial diversity in nine Lycopodiaceae (club moss) species collected in New Zealand. This was done with generic fungal ITS rDNA primers, as well as Endogonales- and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)-selective primer sets targeting the 18S rDNA, and generic bacterial primers targeting the V4 region of the 16S rDNA. We found that the Lycopodiaceae rhizobiome was comprised of an unexpected high frequency of Basidiomycota and Ascomycota coincident with a low abundance of Endogonales and Glomerales. The distribution and abundance of Endogonales varied with host lycopod, and included a novel taxon as well as a single operational taxonomic unit (OTU) that was detected across all plant species. The Lycopodiaceae species with the greatest number and also most unique Phlegmariurus varius Lycopodiella OTUs was , while the plant species that shared the most fungal OTUs were fastigiatum Lycopodium scariosum and . The bacterial OTU distribution was generally not consistent with fungal OTU distribution. For example, community dissimilarity analysis revealed strong concordance between the evolutionary histories of host plants with the fungal community but not with the bacterial community, indicating that Lycopodiaceae have evolved specific relationships with their fungal symbionts. Notably, nearly 16% of the ITS rDNA fungal diversity detected in the Lycopodiaceae rhizobiome remained poorly classified, indicating there is much plant-associated fungal diversity left to describe in New Zealand.

Bera, G., Doyle, S., Passow, U., Kamalanathan, M., Wade, T.L., Sylvan, J.B., Sericano, J.L., Gold, G., Quigg, A., Knap, A.H., 2020. Biological response to dissolved versus dispersed oil. Marine Pollution Bulletin 150, 110713.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19308690 The water-soluble compounds of oil (e.g. low molecular weight PAHs) dissolve as a function of their physicochemical properties and environmental conditions, while the non-soluble compounds exist as dispersed droplets. Both the chemical and physical form of oil will affect the biological response. We present data from a mesocosm study comparing the microbial response to the water-soluble fraction (WSF), versus a water- accommodated fraction of oil (WAF), which contains both dispersed and dissolved oil components. WAF and WSF contained similar concentrations of low molecular weight PAHs, but concentrations of 4- and 5-ring PAHs were higher in WAFcompared to WSF. Microbial communities were significantly different between